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dan liuSubject: preserve line breaks in xml attribute
Author: dan liu
Date: 11 Nov 2008 01:43 PM
Hi,

Is there any way to preserve the line breaks from the xml attribute to my result xml file. Here is a simple input xml file:
<faq>
<answertext test="d1
d2
d3"/>
</faq>

my xslt file:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/faq">
<result>
<xsl:value-of select="answertext/@test"/>
<xsl:if test="contains(answertext/@test,'&#xA;')">
<xsl:message>111</xsl:message>
</xsl:if>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The result:
<result>d1 d2 d3</result>

It seems the xml parser takes out the line break, as the 111 is not displayed.

Is it possible to keep the line breaks?

Thanks /dan

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Tony LavinioSubject: preserve line breaks in xml attribute
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 11 Nov 2008 07:16 PM
See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize

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dan liuSubject: preserve line breaks in xml attribute
Author: dan liu
Date: 11 Nov 2008 11:04 PM
based on w3 attribute normalization: "All line breaks MUST have been normalized on input to #xA ", my xslt should go to the <xsl:message> to generate 111, which is not the case with the transformation. What is the reason?
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Tony LavinioSubject: preserve line breaks in xml attribute
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 12 Nov 2008 08:22 AM
You stopped reading too early.

The next steps (look carefully at #3) describe how whitespace
characters, including LF and TAB, are then turned into spaces.
   
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